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Re: status of smoke-me testing

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From:
Tony Cook
Date:
June 1, 2021 01:57
Subject:
Re: status of smoke-me testing
Message ID:
20210601015732.GC3719@venus.tony.develop-help.com
On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 01:44:47PM -0700, Robert wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Mail is going to remain the fastest way to get reports into
> > perl.develop-help.com - I'm subscribed to the daily-build-reports list
> > and a procmail rule pushes the message to perl.develop-help.com as
> > soon as I receive it[1][2], while I have to poll for test-smoke.org for
> > reports.
> >
> >
> FWIW, I'd really love to not have these delivered via email to
> daily-build-reports.  I've already got some ugly hacks in place to keep it
> working.  Gigabytes of things people look at once, if ever, is not a great
> use of limited resources.   A compromise *might* be deleting any more than
> $TIMEPERIOD old from the archives.

That wouldn't cause a problem for me, unless the nntp message numbers
were reset.

I know the intent was for the smoke reports database to replace the
mailing list, but in my experience it's been a bit too unreliable for
that.

Tony

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